Beautiful, especially the bedroom and kitchen. Changing between the indoor and outdoor views, I do wonder if it’s as spacious as it looks. With no or few straight lines to speak of, it’s hard to tell whether they used a wide angle lens to make the inside space look bigger.

Jun 14th, 2011

Celzn

Wow, so hippie.

Jun 15th, 2011

kadal

seems happy to live there

Jun 15th, 2011

Jessica

It’s beautiful, but using so much wood isn’t precisely environmentally friendly nowadays.

nice concept, but this is the Ugliest piece of architecture i have ever seen….!

Jun 15th, 2011

Really?

@Jessica… isn’t wood the totally environmentally friendly way to build… considering it grows in trees, which are a renewable resource?

Jun 15th, 2011

OgTheDim

Ah, there’s no insulation. If this is in Europe or the north half of North America, you’d freeze in the winter, even though the furnace’d be heating the great outdoors.

Jun 15th, 2011

Doc

It’s like a big ottoman. Unique design perhaps but i doubt if it will be stable enough to withstand a stiff wind.

Jun 15th, 2011

MrFristi

Can it walk?

Jun 15th, 2011

SNO_MIKE

@Jessica timber is one of the most sustainable building resources that we have available to us. Concrete is one of the worst building materials that we use in terms of its impact on the environment

Jun 15th, 2011

Bob

I immediately notice a few things. First and foremost a total lack of insulation, this is no problem if you live in a place where the temperature is the same year round, but most of the world is not that kind of place. The second thing is the total lack of ventilation except natural ventilation, again all well and good in the right spots but for most of the world worthless or even downright lethal. Same thing goes for the lack of heating or air conditioning. The only major appliances I see are a fridge/freezer, what appears to be a stove, and a smarthouse computer system that must be bored to death by having nothing to manage really. Other than that it looks good, metaphorically anyway, aesthetically it reminds me of something from the bad end of the cow pen.

Jun 15th, 2011

Tanner

Probably shouldn’t smoke inside either.

Jun 16th, 2011

Larna

What happen at night?
Or when it rains?
hihi

Jun 16th, 2011

gunneos

I’m sure it’s built to, you know, STORE the energy. Unless it rains 40 days and 40 nights, that I duno.

Jun 16th, 2011

Danielle Hogan

I think it’s tough. I’d live in it in a heartbeat. I’m sure there is some sort of insulation or it wouldn’t fall into the energy efficient category but what kind is it? I’d like to know in case I ever decide to build a funky little solar house.

Jun 16th, 2011

Gert

My first thought was ‘ugly’ but after reading the other comments I’m adding impractical as well.

Jun 16th, 2011

Joy

WOW!!! I WANNA LIVE THERE

Sep 28th, 2011

Maurice Ferguson

Wow, so many people complaining about an apparent lack of insulation. Just because a material is thin, doesn’t mean it’s flimsey or lets in a draft. For a given thickness, plywood boards (as in criss-crossed layers of thin wood veneers, not particle board) is muuuch stronger, more flexible, and more insulating than any sort of metal, plastic, concrete, or stucco (the stucco on most cheap track homes can be completely chipped off with no more than a fingernail). And it looks like those beautiful waffled recesses in outer walls and ceiling are about a foot deep, so if you were really obsessed with insulation, that’s about 6 more inches of space you could fill in with foam than in the average house. Also, raised houses have a certain degree of natural insulation from their shape. In the summer, it’s got a pocket of cool, shaded air beneath it. In the winter, when there might be frost or snow on the ground, the whole bottom surface of the house is not sitting right in it, right at the level of the freezing water table. A raised floor makes the wiring for heated floors much simpler and easier to maintain as well.